[ofa-general] Re: Re: OFED HA related question

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu May 17 01:26:03 PDT 2007


> Quoting Gleb Natapov <glebn at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: Re: OFED HA related question
> 
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:03:13PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> >  > Also does ibv_dereg_mr() work when fatal error occurs ?
> > 
> > It will probably fail but you should try to destroy all your resources
> > I guess.
> > 
> This is very good question. Application should be able to unpin memory
> even if HCA is completely dead.

This is only safe after you reset the HCA, otherwise it might be
writing over this memory.

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MST



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